Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. “ Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read.”- Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year)īritain’s Special Air Service-or SAS-was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind.“Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue-now a limited series on Epix!.
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